Hospital harms total $1 billion for health care system in Ontario

Experiencing harm in hospital significantly increases the length of stay, length of recovery after discharge and health system costs, which amounted to more than $1 billion in Ontario in fiscal year 2015/16, according to new research in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). “We were able to estimate, for the first time, the total health system impact of hospital harm in Ontario,” says Lauren Tessier, PhD student, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. “This amounted to more than $1 billion in 2017 Canadian dollars and 407,696 acute hospital days — equivalent to a 1117-bed hospital operating at 100% capacity every day for a year.” Using new hospital harm methodology developed by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) to measure adverse

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